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IPS associate fellow Sam Pizzigati has edited Too Much, an online newsletter on excess and inequality, ever since the publication first appeared in 1995. He has written widely on issues around the concentration of income and wealth, with op-eds and articles appearing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times, and a host of other newspapers and periodicals.

A veteran labor movement journalist, Pizzigati spent 20 years directing the publishing operations of America's largest union, the 3.2 million-member National Education Association. Over the course of his union career, he has also edited publications for three other national unions and co-edited the primary text on trade union journalism, The New Labor Press (Cornell University ILR Press). His latest book, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives (Apex Press), won an "outstanding title" of the year rating from the American Library Association (Choice, January 2006). Greed and Good examines just how concentrated wealth is poisoning every aspect of our contemporary lives, from our economy and politics to our health and our happiness.

Pizzigati, 59, lives in Maryland. He has served on the boards of directors of Progressive Maryland, the state's most important voice for working families, and United for a Fair Economy, the Boston-based national economic justice advocacy group.

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Sam Pizzigati

Associate Fellow
Inequality and the Common Good

editor@toomuchonline.org

3213 Fayette Road
Kensington, MD, 20895
USA

Recent Work

Op-Ed
Trickle-Up Economics: New Report Reveals Staggering Global Wealth Concentration
October 8 - The world's non-wealthy households haven't done so well over the last half-dozen years, says a new report released last week by a major global business consulting company. By Sam Pizzigati, published in AlterNet.

Op-Ed
Are Corporate Titans Really Worth the Billions They Suck In?
September 12 - In the span of just a few weeks, two enterprises that have become institutional fixtures on the American scene -- Chrysler, the Big Three automaker, and the Ford Foundation, the philanthropic pace-setter -- have named new top executives. By Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati, published in AlterNet.

Report
Executive Excess 2007
August 29 - Back around 1980, big-time corporate CEOs in the United States took home just over 40 times the pay of average American workers. Today’s average American CEO from a Fortune 500 company makes 364 times an average worker’s pay and over 70 times the pay of a four-star Army general. Another example of this growing leadership pay gap: Last year, the top 20 earners in the most lucrative corner of America’s business sector, the private equity and hedge fund world, pocketed 680 times more in rewards for their labors than the nation’s 20 highest-paid leaders of nonprofit institutions pocketed for theirs. Most Americans, over recent years, have become aware that business leaders make enormously more than the workers they employ. The gap between business leaders and other leaders in our society has received considerably less attention. This report, our 14th annual examination of executive excess, seeks to remedy that situation. By the Global Economy project.

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